Art News Archive 2025

January 2025

Art activists join together to advocate for funding at Kansas State Capitol

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #funding #advocacy #kansasartsnetwork

Madison Arts Commission (WI) call for art

#midwestagendaartnews #publicart #civic #madisonartscommission

Art Encounter receives $28,000 grant from NEA to expand in-school art program (Chicago, IL)

#midwestagendaartnews #school #artprogram #nea #chicago

NE Ohio Is Buzzing with Ways to Celebrate Dr King’s Legacy

#midwestagendaartnews #mlk #ohio #minister #activist #politcalphilosopher #civilrights

Thousands enjoy art on a frozen Minneapolis lake despite bone-chilling temperatures

#midwestagendaartnews #atshantyprojects #interactive #artevent #minneapolis

South Bend Museum of Art (IN) seeking entries for ‘Biennial 33’ exhibition

#midwestagendaartnews #biennial #southbend #indiana #exhibition #opencall

\Art Museum Directors Increasingly Fear Censorship, But Few Have a Plan to Deal With It

#midwestagendaartnews #censorship #project2025 #content #liability #freespeech

One of the Most Impactful Art Losses Ever’: Insurers Start to Assess LA Wildfire Damage

A beach house is engulfed in flames as the Palisades Fire burns along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on January 8, 2025. At least five people have been killed in wildfires rampaging around Los Angeles, officials said on January 8, with firefighters overwhelmed by the speed and ferocity of multiple blazes -- including in Hollywood. (Photo by AGUSTIN PAULLIER / AFP) (Photo by AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

#midwestagendaartnews #losangeles #wildfire #destruction #devestation #artcollection #artinsurance

Des Moines Art Center to Demolish Work and Pay Land Artist $900,000

#midwestagendaartnews #greenwoodponddoublesite #landart #marymiss #desmoinesartcenter #urbanwetlands #environmental #ecological

Get a tiny, original artwork for only $5 from this unique vending machine Cincinnati, OH)

#midwestagendaartnews #vending # #cincinnati #artomat

Michelle Obama portrait, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ inspire new Mark Arts exhibit (Wichita, KS)

Augmented Reality Unveiling Party For Alton (IL) Mural Featuring Miles Davis

#midwestagendaartnews #augmentedreality #artivive #milesdavis #peateyezwolleager

Painter Meg Lionel Murphy Finds Power in Feminine Giants (Door County, WI)

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #domesticviolence #meglionelmurphy

A Creative Life Exhibit Opens at VCSU Art Gallery (Valley City, ND)

#midwestagendaartnews #photography #retrospective #roseanneolson

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch

#midwestagendaartnews #freespeech #censorship #freethenipple

After part falls to floor, artwork at Kansas City’s airport terminal likely gone for good

#midwestagendaartnews #kansascity #airport #publicart #nickcave

Artlink’s ‘Midwest Regional’ showcases talent from Fort Wayne (IN), beyond

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #exhibition #artlink #midwest

Beck Center for the Arts presents The Superhero Project (Lakewood, OH)

#midwestagendaartnews #exhibition #children #disabilities #superhero #thesuperheroproject #beckcenterarts

Incarcerated artists find creative outlet through annual U-M exhibition (Ann Arbor, MI)

#midwestagendaartnews #pcap #artists #michigan #prisons

Land artist Stan Herd returns to Dodge City (KS) to repaint his iconic mural

#midwestagendaartnews #mural #publicart #stanherd #kansas

A tale of two art magazines: one celebrates human-delivered arts in Kansas City, one is dedicated to AI art

#midwestagendaartnews #humanartist #artificialintelligence #art #artist

3 Minneapolis art exhibitions to see during the sleepiest week of 2024

#midwestagendaartnews #exhibition #minneapolis #toulouselautrec #stanleywhitney

December 2024

This holiday season, remember those less fortunate amidst a rising oligarchy. How one artist overcomes the problem of anti-homeless furniture in public spaces

#midwestagendaartnews #oligarchy #unhoused #homelessness #thefakirsrest

‘27 years of goodbyes’ thrust Kansas photographer to unexpected international acclaim

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #photogrpahy #deannadikeman

‘Niimiwin’ art exhibit celebrates the powwow tradition (Minneapolis, MN)

#midwestagendaartnews #exhibition #dance #powwow #allmyrelations #minneapolis

Youngstown (OH) Cultural Legacy show to honor recently lost artists

#midwestagendaartnews #exhibition #legacy #community #youngstown

Museum In Wisconsin Houses A Jaw-Dropping Quilts Collection

#midwestagendaartnews #quilts #museum #wisconsinmuseumofquilsandfiberarts

Court ruling states UMB acted properly in managing Thomas Hart Benton Trust

#midwestagendaartnews #thomasartbenton #artist #lawsuit

Schools in central Iowa use art of origami to meet geometry standards for Iowa mathematics

#midwestagendaartnews #origami #math #geometry #Maekawatheorem #Kawasakitheorem

Arctic winds create mysterious frozen sand sculptures along Lake Michigan beach

#midwestagendaartnews #sculpture #nature #frozen #lakemichigan

Nikki Giovanni was a walking revolution

#midwestagendaartnews #poet #writer #nikkigiovanni #lgbtq #civilrights #gender #race #politics #love #fullobituary

Woman Transforms Historic African-American Doll Collection Into A Free Museum In Omaha (NE)

#midwestagendaartnews #dolls #blackhistory #dollmuseumofafricanamericanhistory #omaha

Ethereal, Glowing Curtains Drape Over Lake Michigan in Reuben Wu’s Light Paintings

#midwestagendaartnews #astronomy #lakemichigan #landscape #lasers #lightpainitng #ruebenwu

Illinois artist builds ‘world’s tallest glass tree’ from recycled bottles

#midwestagendaartnews #glass #recycle #theworldstallestglasstree #happyholidays

Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile + Livernois’ exhibition is a tribute to Black Detroit

#midwestagendaartnews #tiffmassey #installation #metalsmith #detroitinstituteart #westafrican #blackamerican

Laetitia Hohenberg, Travis Pratt and others to be featured at latest Heidmann Art Salon (Kansas City, MO)

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #salon #holiday #kansascity

Toledo Museum of Art makes historic art acquisition using cryptocurrency

#midwestagendaartnews #cryptocurrency #nft #ethiopia #toledomuseumofart

The lore of Leigh Bowery
Thirty years after his death, his legacy is about to live loud and proud at Tate Modern

#midwestagendaartnews #leighbowery #original #genderbending #tatemodern #theface

A Kansas artist’s love for his wife lives on as a Christmas tradition in Lindsborg

#midwestagendaartnews #redbarnstudiomuseum #folkart #symbolism #painting #prints #woodcarving #ceramics #metalwork #lindsborg #kansas

Tinyescape, Kansas City’s Westside Holiday Pop-up, Tiny Handmade Dioramas Inspired by Nature and More

#midwestagendaartnews #diorama #smallbusiness #holiday #popup #kansascity

Evanston Made (IL) clinches $1.2 million grant, city funding, to open arts center

#midwestagendaartnews #artsincubator #evanstonmade #illinois

OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked By Group Of Aggrieved Early Testers

#midwestagendaartnews #ai #artificialintelligence #artistadvocacy #ethics #technology

Canton Museum of Art exhibit explores the avant-garde spirit of Cleveland’s Kokoon Klub

#midwestagendaartnews #avantgarde #kokoonclub #cantonmuseumart #ohio

Art exhibit at Tennessee university museum draws controversy
Free speech and Christian faith at loggerheads again

#midwestagendaartnews #exhibition #freespeech #faith #joelgibbs

Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation Facilitated by Arts Group (St Louis, MO)

#midwestagendaartnews #osagenation #counterpublic #sugarloafmound

Skylab Gallery to host final show before eviction (Columbus, OH)

#midwestagendaartnews #art #gallery #gentrificaion #ohio #columbus #skylabgallery

An online collection of ‘outsider art’ enters the real world for the first time in Des Moines (IA)

#midwestagendaartnews #outsiderart #desmoines #iowa